Team 17 is running a publisher sale over the next week, offering an array of discounts like half-price on eldritch fishing sim Dredge and 80% off chaotic cooperative chef adventure Overcooked. By far and away the best discount, though, is for the The Game Kitchen’s Catholocism-coded angst ‘n’ slash Blasphemous, which is a whopping 90%…
Issue #25 – June 2025. Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. You are now living in a post-Switch 2-release world. Having fun? It’s been a whirlwind month for Nintendo fans, with a brand new console to busy ourselves with! Consequently, penning missives to us at NL Towers hasn’t been top of your list, it…
Sorry Pathologic 2 fans, but I am one of those people, the ones who say how much they like the look of Ice-Pick Lodge’s pestilent immersive sim, but wish it was more willing to meet them halfway on the challenge front. It’s not simply that Pathologic 2 is hard. I don’t mind a game kicking…
What are your plans for this weekend? Pint in the sunshine? Booking a summer holiday? Simulating the effects of the industrial revolution on the global economy of the nineteenth century? If it’s the latter, that’s tremendously specific. But I have good tidings for you anyway, as Paradox’s grand strategy Victoria 3 is free to play…
There’s another awesome news story that’s worth a mention here on Indie Retro News, as thanks to both Ethan Knight and Saberman letting us know through Facebook, we’ve been told that Jon Eggelton and Gianluca Alberico has released a pretty impressive update to their 2023 Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 unofficial hit of ‘SNK vs CAPCOM’;…
Cards on the table, I did not like Stormgate when it launched. I did not like its vibes. I did not like its aesthetic. I did not like its story. I did not like how it felt beneath the fingers. I did not like the paltry number of (bad) singleplayer missions it offered before asking…
Say hello to SpaghettiKart. The N64 classic Mario Kart 64 has been successfully ported to PC under the title SpaghettiKart. This port is the work of Harbour Masters / Ship of Harkinian, and has only been possible thanks to the hard work of a large team of individuals. Read the full article on timeextension.com Say…
Bongo Brawl. Mmm, bananas. Ahem, sorry about that. We meant to say, welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we swing over to this week’s bongo brawlers, let’s quickly recap what happened last time when three covers from the Dreamcast’s Jet Set Radio went head to head (to head). There was a decent…
My Friend Pedro was a Flash game that evolved into a standalone release in which you played a man who used his skateboard gun-fu skills to kill bad dudes at the command of a talking banana (named Pedro). It was a lot of fun. I gave it an 81. You could throw a frypan into…
The “gnarly remake” adds multiple new parks. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 revives two more classics next month, but that’s not all – as it’s also bringing a new pinball-themed park to the series featuring the Birdman himself. This is one of multiple new parks “joining the lineup of original parks” in this…